There tends to be an overall trend in the macro-state towards higher population, diversity and habitability, with longer waiting times between quakes, as successive quakes begin from a higher diversity base.
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Gaia’s acquisition of self-stabilizing and resource recycling properties can be explained by the tendency of complex dynamical systems to find an attractor, and for increasing informational entropy to produce a positive trend towards more productive, diverse and stable attractors.